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Vatican City - St. Peter's Square - Patrons' Edition
🕑 Added 2025-11-03 18:42:33 +0000 UTCSo the first part of the Vatican City megaproject is done. Well, kind of. One of the tricky things about drawing the Vatican is that there are parts of it I haven't drawn yet in the background. In the top left is the Apostolic Palace and, at the bottom left, there's a church called Santa Maria della Pieta. That stuff on the right is Italy. So I'll have to remake this map with all the other stuff included once it's done.
Also, St. Peter's Square is huge. Like, this is actually one of the biggest maps I've ever made. That's 199x160 tiles right there. You can fit multiple football fields inside it (either kind). The pope has a pretty big front yard.
The next part of the Vatican I'm going to draw will probably be St. Peter's Basilica, the entrance to which is on the left. And I'm not gonna lie, I'm a little apprehensive about that. Because, you see, the floor of the basilica looks like this. Am I going to draw all that? Yes. Is it going to look really cool? Probably. Am I looking forward to it? No, I really am not. I'll be honest with you: I'm a little scared. But it's gotta be done and I'm going to do it regardless.
But first, I'll be drawing last month's Cartographic Congress winner: a dwarven fort built around a waterfall. There'll be a lock for boats, a waterwheel or two, stuff like that. And after that, we're back to the Vatican. Sound good? I hope so.
Anyway, if you've got any thoughts or questions, let me know!
Download from Google Drive here (under NEWEST PATRON CONTENT).
Comments
Milby's Maps
Yeah, I read about that. It's wild.
Automne des Forêts
The absolutely coolest thing about St. Peter's Square is the Egyptian Obelisk in the center. It was relocated from Egypt to Rome by Emperor Nero as part of the circus (a horse racetrack) that he built. This is the same circus that the real St. Peter was crucified in. The obelisk has pretty not much not moved since, even when the circus was replaced by the Square. Nobody is sure how old it is, but it's possibly the oldest standing structure in Rome, predating the city itself.
Milby's Maps
A lot of people probably wouldn't recognize it right away, although it probably depends on how many Catholics are in your group and how close you live to Italy.
Jasper van Nieuwenhuijzen
God it would be so funny to run an adventure in some fantasy theocracy or whatever and pull out this map and act like you don't know what Vatican City is
